Thread: A Bad Crash

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We have a lot of half fast drivers on the roads down here. You guys are right on the mark about driving defensively, even in our daily drivers, but especially in our rods. When my two Sons turned 16 and started driving (we all remember those nights of laying half awake until we heard their cars pull into the driveway at night) I told them they had one goal when they pulled out of the driveway. That goal was to get back home alive that day, nothing else mattered.

Besides the several accidents we have discussed on this thread there have been a few others involving hot rods worth mentioning. The blue bucket pictured below was driven by a young lady named Megan. I met her at Turkey Run a few years ago, very nice lady and very lucky to be alive. She was traveling on some interstate at about 70 mph and the car downshifted somehow and it threw it out of control. It ended up laying on it's side against the guardrail, and Megan was thrown clear into the woods. I believe her injuries were some ribs and maybe a punctured lung, if I recall correctly.

The green rod upside down in the ditch was singer Brian Setzers (Stray Cats) old rod, and had been sold to someone in someplace like Sweden, where this accident occurred. I am not sure if the driver of this one survived or not.

So while statistically wrecks involving hot rods aren't common, they aren't impossible either. They sure does sicken us when we see them and wake us up to the risks we take playing in traffic with cars and trucks that make us look like ants size wise.

Don